Natalie Stingelin (also published under Natalie Stutzmann and Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann), Fellow of the Materials Research Society and Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), is a materials scientist and current chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (since 2016; chair since 2022),[3] the University of Bordeaux (since 2017) and Imperial College (since 2009).[1][4] She led the European CommissionMarie Curie INFORM network and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances.
Early life and education
Stingelin originally wanted to study architecture but instead decided to study materials science at ETH Zurich, graduating in 1997.[5][6] She remained there for her graduate studies, earning a PhD[2] in 2001 which was awarded the ETH Zurich medal – the highest honour a PhD can receive at ETH Zurich.[6]
Stingelin secured funding from the EPSRC to establish the Centre for Plastic Electronics at Imperial College London.[10] She studies organic electronic materials and how their microstructure impacts their electronic properties.[8] She is a member of the IUPAC committee on polymer terminology.[11] In 2011, Stingelin was awarded a European Research Council starting grant, and in 2015, she secured an ERC Proof-of-Concept grant.[6][12] Her research considers organic photovoltaics and organic thin film transistors.[13][14][15] Her main research areas are the microfabrication and selective patterning of organic electronic materials and inorganic-organic frameworks.[16] She developed a model that describes the relationship between charge transport, disorder and aggregation in conjugated molecular systems.[17] High molecular weight polymers demonstrate a charge transport that is limited by lattice disorder.[17] She also demonstrated that crystallisation of fullerene molecules in polymer/fullerene blends is the driver of charge separation.[18][19]
^ abNoriega, Rodrigo; Rivnay, Jonathan; Vandewal, Koen; Koch, Felix P. V.; Stingelin, Natalie; Smith, Paul; Toney, Michael F.; Salleo, Alberto (2013-08-04). "A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers". Nature Materials. 12 (11): 1038–1044. Bibcode:2013NatMa..12.1038N. doi:10.1038/nmat3722. ISSN1476-1122. PMID23913173.
^Jamieson, Fiona C.; Domingo, Ester Buchaca; McCarthy-Ward, Thomas; Heeney, Martin; Stingelin, Natalie; Durrant, James R. (2012). "Fullerenecrystallisation as a key driver of charge separation in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells". Chem. Sci. 3 (2): 485–492. doi:10.1039/C1SC00674F.
^Westacott, Paul; Tumbleston, John R.; Shoaee, Safa; Fearn, Sarah; Bannock, James H.; Gilchrist, James B.; Heutz, Sandrine; deMello, John; Heeney, Martin (2013). "On the role of intermixed phases in organic photovoltaic blends". Energy & Environmental Science. 6 (9): 2756. doi:10.1039/c3ee41821a. ISSN1754-5692.
